Ball, who was drunk, walked down South Florida Avenue and started mouthing off to a man near a fence, deputies said. The man beat up Ball and when Ball began name-calling, another man came out of a mobile home and fired several rounds at the victim, deputies said.

"This isn't a drug deal gone wrong. This is, 'I got a gun and how dare you call me names, so I'm going to shoot you,'" Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said. "This underscores something that you see every day. Human life on the streets is cheap."

Two people who are considered persons of interest live at the home where Bell died are being questioned, deputies said.